jontheturboguy
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gjclark said:.....any advice?
A. Educate said girl that all the bull÷&##€÷£!+×$! She sees in the movies about gun just "going off" is exactly that. BS.
B. Get a new girl friend.
gjclark said:.....any advice?
A. Educate said girl that all the bull÷&##€÷£!+×$! She sees in the movies about gun just "going off" is exactly that. BS.
B. Get a new girl friend.
Get a 1911......end of conflict.....
She then got teary and said she just wished there was a more safety then just pulling the trigger and it going boom.
"...she just wished that I would realize the genius of John Moses Browning when he perfected the fighting pistol with the development of his Model of 1911 design and that I would lose the tacticool Tupperware and carry a pistol meant for use by men(!), because she doesn't want to have to be the one to rush me to the hospital when I inevitably Glock-leg myself because...
A point of view from the Gf's side of the fence...
Aside from a little time, and a lot of empty handling, the biggest helper for me was reading the manual. Something about the manufacturer explanation and simplification really chilled out my inner spaz.
The ability to step back, open my mind, and see the big picture, did me a world of good.
Maybe it will her too.
This.
Because while her lips were saying this:
...what she meant was:
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Kidding aside, this sounds like a good idea to help calm her fears...
Thats pretty much what I was thinking.
I actually have been debating with my best buddies father, who is a huge gun guy, about chamber carry. He refuses to carry one in the chamber because of all the horror stories of people shooting themselves. He carries one of the dinky sig 9mm (938?) Im not sure which model, as I am not caught up on my mini sigs. He wont listen to reason and says he doesn't need training because he knows how to handle a firearm. Oh the joys of mental block!
Thats pretty much what I was thinking.
I actually have been debating with my best buddies father, who is a huge gun guy, about chamber carry. He refuses to carry one in the chamber because of all the horror stories of people shooting themselves. He carries one of the dinky sig 9mm (938?) Im not sure which model, as I am not caught up on my mini sigs. He wont listen to reason and says he doesn't need training because he knows how to handle a firearm. Oh the joys of mental block!
To gjclark,
There is a lot here that is purely emotional. Logic does not always apply to a discussion. There are positives and negatives on both sides of the fence. It is only our perception that skews the balance one way or the other.
I say this because to my knowledge there have been zero (0) studies done showing the good or bad of carrying one in the chamber. There will only be anectdotal stories that while they cannot be totally ignored neither are they a sign of anything resembling the "truth."
What you need to ask yourself is: is there some really, really reasonable foundation for your carrying a Glock over another pistol that has an active safety switch? I am going to guess that while you have your reason(s) they are not prohibitive to carrying another model that may make you happy (you are armed and defended) while also making her happy (she gets to see a safety.) Her desire for a safety is not entirely unreasonable. You have shown her Glocks safety features but we are talking comfort.
Some battles are we fight to win, others simply to not loose. She does not sound like she has been at all unreasonable up until this point, and she is not being 100% unreasonable regarding the desire for an active safety. That isn't a bad thing. Even though Glock has many passive safety's I would say that if it is really important to her let her be wrong and do it her way anyway. She isn't asking you to disarm. Probably given enough time and familiarity with firearms knowledge she will change her position and grow comfortable with the Glock.
I have carried a semiauto without one in the chamber. While there might maybe somehow be a one in a million chance that I don't have time to chamber a round, I am not going to worry about that longshot freak statistic. I have also carried with one in the chamber. For me it depended upon the pistol at the time.
In the end regarding such a thing no one is 100% right or wrong. It is all a matter of personal opinion or comfort level.
Do not forget, if this is the worst argument you have had in a while - you and she are dong just fine.
Regards,
Doug